{"id":475,"date":"2025-12-19T07:45:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/souverainete-suisse.ch\/?p=475"},"modified":"2025-12-19T07:45:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:45:32","slug":"freedom-subsidised-truth-under-guardianship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.souverainete-suisse.ch\/en\/2025\/12\/freedom-subsidised-truth-under-guardianship\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom subsidised, truth under guardianship"},"content":{"rendered":"

When a newspaper can no longer sell its articles, it is left with two options: to question itself... or live off subsidies and propaganda.<\/em>
\nFreedom has chosen.<\/em>
\nUnder the guise of \u2019opinion\u00ab, its editor-in-chief is turning a publicly-funded medium into a pro-European leaflet, scorning all dissenting voices. And that poses a real democratic problem.<\/em><\/p>\n

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There are newspapers that provide information.<\/p>\n

And there are those who militate while claiming to inform<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

La Libert\u00e9 clearly belongs in the second category.<\/p>\n

In its \u00abopinion\u00bb section, the Fribourg newspaper - largely subsidised by public money<\/strong> - is once again engaged in an exercise in pro-European propaganda<\/strong>, by its editor-in-chief, Fran\u00e7ois Mauron.<\/p>\n

A disturbing paradox:<\/p>\n

\u2b95 a title that claims to be \u00abneutral\u00bb<\/p>\n

\u2b95 financed by the Confederation<\/p>\n

\u2b95 but unable to sell its content on its own<\/p>\n

\u2b95 and who makes up for this public disinterest with ideology.<\/p>\n

Why these subsidies?<\/p>\n

Because this newspaper would not survive on the readers' market alone<\/strong>. The verdict is simple: when content is of real interest, it sells. When it doesn't, we subsidise it... and politicise it.<\/p>\n

Contempt, caricature and armchair journalism<\/h3>\n

Fran\u00e7ois Mauron takes the liberty of commenting on a political conference which he did not attend<\/strong>, This is done by caricaturing the arguments, ridiculing the speakers, and disqualifying any criticism of the CH-EU agreements with crude amalgams.<\/p>\n

That's not journalism.<\/p>\n

This is editorial condescension<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As the author rightly points out Nicolas Kolly<\/strong>, La Libert\u00e9 continues its campaign feigning objectivity, while refusing to systematically giving a voice to the critics<\/strong> of these agreements, which are crucial to the country's future.<\/p>\n

A newspaper that is useful to the people of Fribourg would ask the real questions.<\/p>\n

And what if La Libert\u00e9 finally got to the heart of the matter?<\/h3>\n

Let's take a concrete example, brushed aside by Fran\u00e7ois Mauron:<\/p>\n

European bureaucracy applied to the agri-food industry.<\/p>\n

The CH-EU agreements now involve the resumption of 61 European legislative acts<\/strong> in the area of food safety, including<\/p>\n